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LATE AUTUMN GRAPES.-GARDEN GOSSIP. 
175 
Eose (Noisette) William Allen 
Vol. 
Plate 
Page 
Eiohardson. 
1883 ., 
,. 577 
. 3 
(Tea) Catherine Mermet... 
1875 ., 
.. 393 . 
. 73 
Isabella Gray . 
1857 .. 
,. 127 .. 
. 161 
Mdlle. Cecile Berthed... 
1873 .. 
.. 351 . 
,. 145 
Souvenir d’Elise. 
1856 . 
..'117 . 
.. 257 
Salvia gesneriflora. 
1851 . 
.. 49 . 
.. 145 
Sarracenia crispata . 
1881 . 
.. 543 . 
.. 113 
Drummondii. 
1881 . 
.. 543 . 
.. 113 
fiava ornata . 
1881 . 
.. 643 . 
.. 113 
rubra. 
1881 ., 
543 .. 
,. 113 
Skimmia oblata. 
1865 ., 
,. 250 ., 
.. 161 
Sonerila margaritacea. 
1855 . 
.. 98 . 
.. 65 
Spinea palmata elegans . 
1878 . 
.. 463 . 
.. 41 
Tacsonia insignis . 
1873 . 
.. 369 . 
.. 241 
speciosa. 
1871 . 
.. 322 . 
.. 169 
Van Yolxemii . 
1866 . 
.. 262 . 
.. 161 
Tigridia conchiflora. 
1849 . 
.. 19 . 
.. 88 
Pavonia. 
1849 . 
.. 19 . 
.. 88 
Trichinium Manglesii . 
1864 . 
.. 240 . 
., 217 
Trichomanes speciosum . 
1850 . 
,. 30 . 
.. 16 
Tropseolum Empress of India 
1881 . 
.. 551 . 
.. 177 
polyphyllum. 
1876 . 
.. 416 . 
.. 73 
Tulip Bijou (Scarnell). 
1850 . 
.. 38 . 
185 
Chellaston Beauty. 
1852 . 
.. 64 . 
.. 185 
George Hayward. 
1864 . 
.. 89 . 
.. 193 
John Henry (Hepworth)... 
1870 . 
.. 301 . 
.. 169 
Magnificent (Hayward) ... 
1848 . 
.. 9 . 
.. 201 
Sarah Headly (Headly) ... 
1858 . 
.. 142 . 
.. 225 
Thomas Moore (Hepworth) 
1870 .. 
.. 355 . 
.. 193 
Tulipa Eichleri. 
1877 . 
.. 448 . 
.. 169 
Gesneriana Strangwaysii... 
1881 . 
.. 537 . 
.. 65 
Greigi. 
1876 . 
.. 428 . 
.. 217 
Hageri . 
1877 . 
.. 448 . 
.. 169 
Vanda tricolor flavescens. 
1856 . 
.. 113 . 
.. 129 
tricolor formosa. 
1856 . 
.. 113 . 
.. 129 
Verbena Annie. 
1865 . 
.. 244 . 
.. 17 
Blue Beard . 
1855 . 
.. 99 . 
.. 97 
Eclipse . 
1849 . 
.. 16 . 
1 
Fairest of the Fair . 
1861 . 
.. 182 . 
.. 213 
Foxhunter. 
1861 . 
.. 182 . 
.. 213 
Lady Lacon . 
1855 . 
.. 99 . 
.. 97 
Lord Craven. 
1863 . 
.. 211 . 
.. 25 
Lord Leigh . 
1863 . 
.. 211 . 
.. 25 
Orlando. 
1852 . 
.. 55 . 
.. 9 
Princess Alice . 
1849 . 
.. 16 . 
1 
Eoyal Purple. 
1849 . 
.. 16 . 
.. 1 
Wonderful. 
1855 , 
.. 99 , 
97 
Waitzia grandiflora. 
1865 . 
.. 245 . 
.. 41 
Wallflower Yellow Perfection 
1864 . 
.. 237 . 
.. 145 
Wistaria sinensis flore-pleno 
1882 . 
.. 557 . 
.. 33 
{To be continued.) 
LATE AUTUMN GRAPES. 
'E find Gros Maroc and Alnwick Seed- 
useful varieties of 
Grapes to grow for late autumn and 
early winter use; more especially 
the former variety, which if it does as well 
when more generally grown as it does with 
ourselves and one or two other gardeners we 
know, it will, we feel sure, be largely planted. 
The varieties in question are growing side by 
side at the coldest end of a vinery where late 
Muscats are grown, the only other vine being 
Gros Cobiian. We give our Muscats a night 
temperature of about 70° when in bloom, as 
we find in our moist cool soil that they then 
set more satisfactorily than in a cooler tem¬ 
perature. On dull days we endeavour to get 
the temperature up to 80°, with an increase of 
10° by sun heat. The Gros Maroc and Alnwick 
Seedling have set as well as Hamburghs 
usually do. 
Alnwick Seedliwj is not so ripe as Gros 
Maroc ; it will take fully another three weeks 
before it is fit to eat, though coloured as black 
as sloes. Gros Maroc has the advantage in 
this respect. In the same house Gros Colman 
is a month from being ripe. Its long period 
of ripening is, in my opinion, a great drawback 
to this otherwise noble-looking grape. I dare¬ 
say in light warm soils it may ripen quicker ; 
in fact, a neighbour of ours, who grows grapes 
for market rather largely, has a number of 
vines of Gros Colman in his long span-roofed 
vinery, and from these he gets enormous crops 
of fine grapes, the soil in which they are 
planted being an alluvial sandy loam.—H. J. 
C., Grimston. 
GARDEN GOSSIP. « 
— 29r. Hogg’s Fruit Manual, of which a 
fifth edition has just been published, is quite 
indispensable to every garden library. Some 
twenty-four years ago when it first appeared it was 
a modest little handbook, nine years since it de¬ 
veloped into an octavo volume, and now in the fifth 
edition it becomes a bulky volume of more than 750 
pages. This rapid increase of size shows that pomo¬ 
logy is making progress amongst us notwithstanding 
uncongenial seasons, and that the author has been 
busy working up the materials which time has 
brought into his hands. Of its merits we need only 
say it is well done; and since it records mainly what 
experience teaches as to the behaviour of fruits in 
this country, it is on that account exactly fitted to 
be consulted by our home fruit-growers, whether 
amateur or professional. The descriptions of Apples 
occupy more than 250 pages, those of Pears 210 
pages. Some twenty-eight pages are devoted to an 
elaboration of Dr. Hogg’s Classification of Apples, 
which has been amended, and of which the author 
observes after fuller experience that he is convinced 
the principles upon which it is founded are sound. 
The various other cultivated fruits, including grapes 
and pine-apples, are passed under review, on the 
same plan as the apples and pears, so that it becomes 
a complete and fully trustworthy book of reference 
for all garden fruits. That Dr. Hogg’s labours as a 
pomologist have been appreciated we need only recall 
the fact that at the recent Pomological Congress at 
llouen he was presented with a gold medal. 
— ^The Annual International Potato 
Exhibition held in association with the 
great Hardy Fruit Show at the Crystal Palace 
on October 10 and two following days was perhaps 
not quite so extensive as on some former occasions 
but the inferior elements were more generally 
eliminated, so that the average quality was sujiorior. 
Indeed, there can be little doubt but that those who 
saw an International Potato Show for the first time 
were amazed at the beauty set forth and delighted 
with the varied hues and forms displayed. The 
show was held beneath the lofty centre transept, and 
attracted a considerable gathering of the horticultural 
